Aberrant
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
Aberrant (comparative more Aberrant, superlative most Aberrant)
- Differing from the norm, from the expected type; abnormal, anomalous.
- Deviating from morality; straying from the right way.
- (biology) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
- Charles Darwin,
- The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.
- Charles Darwin,
Derived terms
Thesaurus
aberrative; abnormal; abominable; abroad; adrift; all abroad; all off; all wrong; amiss; amorphous; anomalistic; anomalous; askew; astray; at fault; atrocious; atypical; awry; beside the mark; circuitous; corrupt; criminal; deceptive; defective; delinquent; delusive; departing; desultory; deviant; deviating; deviational; deviative; deviatory; devious; different; digressive; discursive; disgraceful; disparate; distorted; divergent; eccentric; errant; erratic; erring; erroneous; evil; exceptional; excursive; fallacious; false; faultful; faulty; flawed; formless; hardly the thing; heretical; heteroclite; heterodox; heteromorphic; ignominious; illegal; illogical; illusory; improper; inappropriate; incorrect; indecorous; indirect; infamous; irregular; labyrinthine; mazy; meandering; not done; not right; not the thing; not true; odd; off; off the track; off-base; off-color; out; out-of-line; out-of-the-way; peccant; peculiar; perverse; perverted; planetary; preternatural; rambling; roving; sacrilegious; scandalous; self-contradictory; serpentine; shameful; shameless; shapeless; shifting; sinful; snaky; strange; stray; straying; subnormal; swerving; terrible; turning; twisting; undirected; undue; unfactual; unfit; unfitting; unlawful; unnatural; unorthodox; unproved; unrepresentative; unrighteous; unseemly; unsuitable; untrue; untypical; unusual; vagrant; veering; wandering; wicked; wide; winding; wrong; wrongful; zigzag
Noun
Aberrant (plural Aberrants)- A person or object that is aberrant.
